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> How do you ensure dis/likes are unique if it's anonymous? Does it really matter? Who is going to try and "game" your like count by deleting cookies or other

> How do you ensure dis/likes are unique if it's anonymous? Does it really matter? Who is going to try and "game" your like count by deleting cookies or other such methods?

jchapron 13y ago
Yourself ?
- PavlovsCat 13y ago
  If you are the only one to gain from gaming the system, you can ensure it's not gamed by not gaming it. If you can't resist that, nobody can help you xD But what about vandalism and trolldom, right?
  - jchapron 13y ago
    Sorry, I thought my answer was more self-explicit than it is. I just thought a lot of people would simulate a high number of "likes" on their articles for added credibility or whatever ("hey 3000 likes on this little button, a lot of people must think this guy is important")
    - likeclockwork 13y ago
      It's your own website though, you can already put any lies you want on there.
PavlovsCat 13y ago
I'm pretty sure (or rather, I hope) HN for example has mechanisms in place to spot accounts created solely for upvoting/downvoting submissions and/or comments though. If the content has anything to do at all with politics or music or movies or a lot of other things, or anyone has the slightest economic incentive, the answer to your question is, sadly, "enough". Depending on their energy, it really takes only one person. I think this also applies to FB and G+... but I don't care, I want this to be better than FB and G+ likes, which I despise haha. And for a personal photo gallery it is probably perfect, and other such things. Small communities of nice people, which do exist. But for a site a la reddit or youtube or political blog aggregators? Hmm. But maybe that's okay, maybe huge sites can't have nice things, and that's fine. I hate to sound like I'm dissing this. It's really not meant that way, to the contrary: I love how configurable and sexy it is, I upvoted the submission instantly, and then proceeded to ask questions. And maybe it's really more a social than a technical problem. In an ideal world, we would use these as tools to make our opinion known, appreciate them as such and never ever fuck with them.
frakkingcylons 13y ago
Imagine if someone made a script to send your like count to an outrageously high number. That would demean the value/purpose of having a like count.

> How do you ensure dis/likes are unique if it's anonymous? Does it really matter? Who is going to try and "game" your like count by deleting cookies or other such methods?

jchapron 13y ago

Yourself ?

PavlovsCat 13y ago
If you are the only one to gain from gaming the system, you can ensure it's not gamed by not gaming it. If you can't resist that, nobody can help you xD But what about vandalism and trolldom, right?
- jchapron 13y ago
  Sorry, I thought my answer was more self-explicit than it is. I just thought a lot of people would simulate a high number of "likes" on their articles for added credibility or whatever ("hey 3000 likes on this little button, a lot of people must think this guy is important")
  - likeclockwork 13y ago
    It's your own website though, you can already put any lies you want on there.

PavlovsCat 13y ago

I'm pretty sure (or rather, I hope) HN for example has mechanisms in place to spot accounts created solely for upvoting/downvoting submissions and/or comments though. If the content has anything to do at all with politics or music or movies or a lot of other things, or anyone has the slightest economic incentive, the answer to your question is, sadly, "enough". Depending on their energy, it really takes only one person. I think this also applies to FB and G+... but I don't care, I want this to be better than FB and G+ likes, which I despise haha. And for a personal photo gallery it is probably perfect, and other such things. Small communities of nice people, which do exist. But for a site a la reddit or youtube or political blog aggregators? Hmm. But maybe that's okay, maybe huge sites can't have nice things, and that's fine. I hate to sound like I'm dissing this. It's really not meant that way, to the contrary: I love how configurable and sexy it is, I upvoted the submission instantly, and then proceeded to ask questions. And maybe it's really more a social than a technical problem. In an ideal world, we would use these as tools to make our opinion known, appreciate them as such and never ever fuck with them.

frakkingcylons 13y ago

Imagine if someone made a script to send your like count to an outrageously high number. That would demean the value/purpose of having a like count.